Swiss authorities say evidence has been seized in a search at the French football federation headquarters for their criminal case against former FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

The office of Switzerland's attorney general on Wednesday said the governing body for French football consented to the search carried out Tuesday with the cooperation of the French Financial Prosecution Office.

Sunderland's chief executive Margaret Byrne announced her resignation on Tuesday after admitting to making "a serious mistake" in her handling of the Adam Johnson affair.

"I recognize that, as CEO, my involvement with Mr Johnson and the decision to allow him to continue to represent Sunderland was a serious mistake," Byrne said in a statement.

Once they get to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, American athletes could be faced with virus-spreading mosquitoes, virus-infested water and the prospect of competing against at least two countries, Russia and Kenya, that are under investigation for top-to-bottom doping conspiracies.

The U.S. Olympic Committee's stance on all that: Everything will be just fine.

It's tough enough replacing a starting quarterback, let alone a legend like Peyton Manning.

Yet that's the challenge facing another great QB, John Elway, who now runs the Denver Broncos team that Manning walked away from Monday.

As the records keep piling up for Stephen Curry, he is far from ready to pick a favorite.

There's still too much to accomplish — like that best-ever Bulls' mark of 72 wins, another championship, maybe the MVP again.

Five-time Grand Slam tennis champion Maria Sharapova said Monday she failed a dope test at the Australian Open, and isn't sure what punishment she'll face for her "huge mistake."

The former world number one from Russia said a change in the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned list for 2016 led to an inadvertent violation, for which she will be "provisionally suspended" by the International Tennis Federation.

Nick Kyrgios has returned serve at teammate Bernard Tomic after he accused the maverick star of faking illness to avoid playing in Australia's Davis Cup tie against the United States.

The storm erupted when 20th-ranked Tomic was overheard during a changeover in his match with American John Isner on Sunday questioning Kyrgios's absence from the tie.

Louis van Gaal said Spanish international Juan Mata should have shown more care after he was red-carded as Manchester United lost 1-0 to West Bromwich Albion in a blow to their Champions League qualification hopes.

Mata paid a heavy price for two moments of madness in the space of three minutes and that proved costly as United missed out on the chance to stay in close touch with fourth-placed Manchester City at the Hawthorns.

Los Angeles Galaxy launched their new Major League Soccer season with a 4-1 victory over DC United on Sunday inspired by two of the star-studded outfit's lesser lights.

The Galaxy, whose starting line-up featured former Premier League stalwarts Steven Gerrard, Ashley Cole, Nigel de Jong and Robbie Keane, had looked in danger of suffering a shock loss after United took the lead through Lamar Neagle on five minutes.

The Los Angeles Lakers posted one of the biggest upsets of the NBA season Sunday with an unlikely 112-95 victory over the reigning league champion Golden State Warriors.

Pre-game hype Sunday was all about Kobe Bryant's final contest against the Warriors, but the crowd of 19,000 at Staples Center arena got more than they wished for with a rare win by the cellar-dwelling Lakers.